Holiday Inn Kingston South is rebranding as a Crowne Plaza

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• Chris A says:

  6 Jul6 July 09:54

  Fantastic price to Cape Town. Quite a few flights at around the £1800 rtn mark.
  Although not the case on this occasion, this is of course type of flight where thousands of £ can be saved by starting in Paris/Amsterdam.

• Lee H says:

  6 Jul6 July 11:20

  And I’m all out of leave until 1 April – such a shame or that would be booked immediately . Thoughts on BA running something like this again?

• Swissy says:

  6 Jul6 July 11:59

  I booked the CPT deal with car for £3,750.
  Very pleased and during half term to boot

• Swissy says:

  6 Jul6 July 12:02

  Oh tell a lie.
  £3,562 .00 !

• Anna says:

  6 Jul6 July 12:41

  OT – HH. I’ve noticed that when making bookings for Hilton Hotels I initially get prices quoted on £, but on the booking page the price gets converted to $ and additionally, taxes are added on top. I thought any hotel prices advertised in the EU had to display taxes with the headline price?

  • Anna says:

    6 Jul6 July 12:43

    e.g. price quoted for 3 nights is £240 per night, so £720 in total, however on the booking page the full price with the taxes added is $1105, i.e. £835.

  • the_real_a says:

    6 Jul6 July 16:03

    Double check you are booking hilton.co.uk (it will revert to hilton.com/en). If you are abroad hotel sites have a nasty habit of changing you to the local countries site and then because you have default currency set to £ – converting your payment amount. VPN`s a must for regular travelers.

    • Anna says:

      6 Jul6 July 19:00

      Will do, thanks Harry. I’m trying to decide whether to stick with Hilton for our mini break to NYC next year or go with the Kaligo offer and pay their slightly inflated prices for a chunk of Avios. The best refundable deal I can get on Kaligo is £1070 for 3 nights without breakfast at a Wyndham hotel, this gives 29000 Avios but is about £200 more expensive than booking direct. First world problems…!

      • bosco says:

        6 Jul6 July 19:36

        Hilton offered me 4 nights in their W 57th property for £550 for attending a 2 hour timeshare presentation? Anyone been?

      • Cat says:

        7 Jul7 July 01:02

        The Wyndham New Yorker? I wouldn’t.

        My boyfriend and I stayed there, and when we first walked into our shoebox of a room our immediate reaction was “Oh well. It’s not like we plan to spend much time in our room…”

      • the_real_a says:

        7 Jul7 July 18:42

        Cough.. Im not Harry BTW 🙂 I predate Harry on here by some years!

• luke says:

  6 Jul6 July 12:57

  The surbiton hotel., I think you are supposed to bike everywhere on the new bike lane outside the hotel.

• dicksbits says:

  6 Jul6 July 14:54

  The flash sale on BA holidays is a bit of a con really…Priced the same flight and hotel in NYC in Nov and it’s gone up by £50 pp, compared to days before the sale was launched. Funny that..

  • Thomas Howard says:

    6 Jul6 July 15:10

    You would think that might be considered a misleading action under the CPUT Regulations. Its lucky we’ve cut public services to the point businesses don’t have to worry about all this red tape now.

    • dicksbits says:

      6 Jul6 July 16:57

      agree – maybe there are some genuine discounts there but I am very sceptical after seeing that on the holiday I was looking at. It reminded me that I thin they’ve pulled this stunt before: Hey! Sale! (But we raised prices at the same time…)

      • Nick says:

        6 Jul6 July 18:00

        BA has to keep documentary proof that they are compliant with UK advertising regulations. If you’re so sure you can prove otherwise, why not try a quick report to the ASA?

• Carl says:

  6 Jul6 July 16:22

  OT Looking for some ideas here, I’m planning on spending a couple of months in Australia at the end of the year, very flexible, I can fly from Anywhere in England or Dublin, Belfast or Switzerland, must return to either England or Switzerland. I don’t mind flying to any airport in Australia or NZ, flying out leaving any date after 28th Oct, and want to be back before Christmas day. I don’t mind possibly having a stopover for a few days somewhere else. I’ve got 93k Avios,

  Any way of doing this in business class all/most of the way without spending £4k+. As much as I want to fly Business, I can’t justify the £3k+ over an economy ticket.

  • Lady London says:

    6 Jul6 July 18:57

    Air China? not sure if Hainan flies to Oz. Otherwise hold on to your money and watch for a QR sale that with luck, will take you most of the way. If you’re prepared to consider leaving from other European countries you might do even better on price (and you should be prepared to do this given the savings involved). It might even work to bring you back to your preferred country even if you got a much better price by choosing another one to leave from.

    I suggest you dig around here on HfP. There’s a search box on the right. You’ll very soon see what I mean, get what you need to know and be well primed.
    PS November leaving shouldn’t be a problem but but you might find the best bargains return later in January. as early Dec-Mid or even late January is peak season for what you’re looking for.

  • Alan says:

    8 Jul8 July 08:03

    Have you looked at leaving from Oslo? Normally about £2.5k in biz, pretty consistent pricing for years.

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